# Quote — Pat Cadigan, Synners

> He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.

- Author: [Pat Cadigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan.md)
- Book: [Synners](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/synners.md)
- Page: 339
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Synners_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/synners/he-had-the

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> Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack.
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> “That’s what we call a Luddite hack.”

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> That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.

p. 364 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/synners/that-was-it-then.md)